"Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now."

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Source : Mordecai Richler, Jonathan Webb, Aislin, Adam Gopnik (2007). “Mordecai Richler Was Here: Selected Writings”, Da Capo Press

Mordecai Richler

#Country Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes

“Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.”
“My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another. [T]he most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.”
“When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best fiction stays with you and changes you.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.
“I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.”

Source : William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1
“There's a black rose growing in your garden.”
“Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.”

Source : "'I was like a ghost': Man recalls years awake but trapped in unresponsive body" by Kate Snow, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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